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Medics rushed to Shaun Ryder's rescue after his face was badly swollen from mosquito bites on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! in 2010.

His experience on the ITV reality show was not an easy ride as he also got bitten by a snake in a terrifying Bushtucker Trial, which saw the slithery creature wrapped its jaw around the Happy Mondays frontman's hand.

Shaun - who finished as runner-up to 36-year-old TV personality Stacey Solomon - recalled to The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: "I got really bad mosquito bites when I was in the jungle. My face swelled so much that medics had to come to my rescue. I also got badly bitten by a snake. But I survived."

And the problems continued when Shaun, 63, took part in I'm A Celebrity...South Africa in 2023 - the all-stars series

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